There Are No War Heroes, Only War Victims: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2020-11-11 at 22:39:14 )

There Are No War Heroes, Only War Victims: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

My new book Poems For Rebels has a bunch of new book distributors for folks who do not want to go through Amazon.- Caitlin

It is still really, really weird that we do not all talk about Yemen all the time. It is like there is someone in the room being tortured with a blowtorch and we are all just chatting about politics at the dinner table without noticing.

I am sorry your election results are being disputed as fraudulent, America. Have you tried not having the single worst electoral system in the western world?

"The media do not decide who is president!"

Uhh, yeah they kinda do. They spent two years sabotaging progressive primary candidates and spent this year manufacturing consent for Joe Biden.

They manipulate the thoughts people think about power, and they can install whomever they wish.

Republicans spent years calling a fake Russia narrative that posed no risk of removing Donald Trump a "coup". Now Democrats are calling a glorified temper tantrum a "coup". The government that stages the most coups around the world has no idea what they are.

They are not scaring you about a Donald Trump "coup" because there is any possibility of that ever happening, they are doing it because it is their last chance to use Donald Trump to psychologically abuse you for clicks.

Joe Biden is a hollowed out husk of a man whose insides have been entirely filled with corporate logos.

FYI anyone who is already defending Joe Biden and saying you are being too hard on him will be completely useless for the next four to eight years.

Liberals are gonna hate me so much more than they already do. They are gonna get sentimental about the old Caitlin.

You can get rid of Donald Trump, but people who say the mass media are crooks and liars will keep getting traction and attention with that message. Because it is true, and people know it is true.

Liberal pundits have loved to promote the narrative that Donald Trump is uniquely cozy with dictators because it lets them both (A) attack him for being insufficiently hawkish toward nations like Russia and North Korea and (B) pretend their favorite presidents have not been extremely cozy with dictators.

Liberal punditry assured us that if Donald Trump was elected in 2016 there would be millions of deportations, Muslims in concentration camps and alt-right militias driving minorities out of the country.

Instead we got another shitty Reagan Republican, total amnesia for Bush and Obamas crimes, and a bunch of psychologically traumatized liberals who just lived through the Holocaust in their minds.

It is literally impossible to say Donald Trump is uniquely evil among presidents without rehabilitating George W Bush. It can not be done, because nothing Donald Trump did is as bad as an invasion which killed over a million people, destabilized the Middle East and ushered in an unprecedented era of military expansionism which displaced tens of millions of people.

That has always been the most destructive element of Donald Trump hysteria: not that it is unfair to Donald Trump, but that it necessarily erases the crimes of his predecessors and of future presidents. It blurs out the criminal nature of the United States empire as an institution by making it about one guy.

One party wants to roll back most of the environmental measures. The other party that wants to implement vastly insufficient environmental measures which accomplish nothing but allowing liberals to feel like they are doing something for a few years. These two parties are not meaningfully different from each other on environmental issues.

In the old days whole empires were built up around religions and their theocratic institutions, who used their doctrines to shape society in service of the powerful. Nowadays the same thing happens, but the religion is called "capitalism".

The plutocrat-owned western political-media class has built up a collective doctrine that you cannot simply end overseas wars and bring the troops home, and that anyone who says you can is a lunatic.

That is all it is though: fact-free religious doctrine, espoused on blind faith.

When it comes to large-scale governing and international matters, the mainstream perspective is only mainstream because extremely wealthy people poured vast fortunes into making it mainstream. There is no collective wisdom or truth in it, it is just what power wants us to believe about what is going on.

Leftists: I want socialism, an end to imperialism, and revolutionary change.

Liberals: I want capitalism, endless war, and the status quo. Also I have pink hair.

Rightists: These are the same to me.

As long as the powerful are propagandizing the people, the people are not truly operating with free will.

Anyone who has escaped a relationship with a manipulative abuser understands that you are not really operating with much free agency while you are being psychologically dominated.

There are no war heroes, only war victims.

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